Mothers

From one of the most important contemporary thinkers we have, a compelling, forceful tract about women and motherhood that demands immediate attention. Moving commandingly between pop cultural references such as Roald Dahl's 'Matilda' to observations about motherhood in the ancient world, from and thoughts about the stigmatization of single mothers in the UK, Mothers delivers a groundbreaking report into something so prevalent we hardly notice. A short, provocative work that considers how motherhood the object of intense ambivalence, of idealization and hatred-is the ultimate scapegoat for everything that is wrong with the world.

Jacqueline Rose is a British academic who is currently professor of Humanities at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities. Her most recent book was Women in Dark Times. A regular contributor to the London Review of Books, she is also a co-founder of Independent Jewish Voices in the UK and a Fellow of the British Academy.